X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <453037E1.8060208@byu.net> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:05:37 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How can I increase ulimit -n or open files limit to 65535 on cygwin? References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704169197@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704169197@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 10/13/2006 2:31 PM: > Annie W. wrote: >> can someone point me on how to increase open file limit? >> Im stuck to 3200 on ulimit -n You can't :( At least, not without patching cygwin (and that is supposing that windows even provides the hooks to make it possible). Bash's ulimit on cygwin is pretty much read-only. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFMDfh84KuGfSFAYARAlPUAJwOSa+YTzX7HpXdo8tCTsuOORIctACgn14H VCgn7506NFlcW8anw4o1SVI= =5IDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/